关于美国动画大师布鲁斯比克福德的故事纪录片
Monster Road explores the wildly fantastic worlds of legendary underground clay animator Bruce Bickford. Tracing the origins of his remarkably unique sensibility, the film journeys back to Bickford's childhood in a competitive household during the paranoia of the Cold War and examines his relationship with his father, George, who is facing the onset of Alzheimer's Disease. Bickford's films, especially the dark and magical clay animations he created for Frank Zappa in the 1970s, have achieved cult status worldwide. Entirely self-taught, the 56-year-old Bickford works alone in a makeshift basement studio in his house near Seattle. Bickford's father George, a retired Boeing engineer of the Cold War era, is the other main character. George's talent for maximizing the space inside airplanes and missiles parallels his son's animations, which often contain dozens of inch-tall figures fighting battles on a tiny set...
怪物道这部纪录片是探索传奇动画布鲁斯比克福德的疯狂幻想世界。 追查比克福德的反传统世界观的起源，电影旅程并回到比克福德的童年，在竞争激烈的家庭，在冷战时期的偏执狂，并探讨他与他的父亲，乔治，的关系。
怪物道首演于2004年，诗兰丹斯电影节上赢得“，”最佳纪录片“，”最后在超过85个国家和世界各地电影节放映，赢得圣丹斯频道首映奖。
作者与摇滚歌手弗兰克扎帕，布鲁斯比克福德的合作，在20世纪70年代使他成为国际偶像。 30年后，61岁大师动画家的作品，仅在西雅图附近的一个地下室工作室，生产，并没有太多明显的电影观众。
魔法森林，刑讯室，汉堡包的演变成怪兽，与巨人，仙女精彩的大战，和不合时宜的历史人物填充只是比克福德的动画宇宙小角落。
布鲁斯是他的父亲乔治在冷战时期面临发病的退休时的唯一的守护。 对此，没有简单的答案。 怪物道显示出已有无数的个人，艺术，哲学从比克福德的生命链，照亮一个错综复杂的影响，燃料布鲁斯的电影梦想。
